A view of Southeast Powell Boulevard near 26th Avenue. Although the transit project won't use Powell Boulevard, the road will soon receive numerous safety improvements and be advanced for future major transit investments.

Expect to see these stations change and a new name for the Division Transit Project when it opens in 2021. Just what those will look like will be part of the next phase of planning and design with TriMet.

The Portland region is gearing up for a new kind of transit. For three years a diverse group of public, private and community partners crafted the Powell-Division Transit and Development strategy to bring more rapid and reliable bus service to Portland and Gresham, advance safer walking and biking in nearby neighborhoods and improve community stability through affordable housing and local economic development.

The new transit service, now called the Division Transit Project, will get thousands of people where they are going more reliably, safely and quickly. New service could begin in 2021.

Since January 2017, TriMet began leading project activities through design, construction and operation of the new transit service. Metro’s project website will continue to serve as an archive and resource for project activities through 2016.

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After several years of planning, the Portland region's next big transit investment is moving forward. What happens next? Here are some questions and answers about what's now called the Division Transit Project.

The vision the project's partners have developed provides Southeast Portland, East Portland and Gresham with much more than just faster and more comfortable bus service. Here are seven improvements coming to the corridor that go beyond the new Division bus service.

Thousands of engaged residents, hundreds of meetings and countless hours of conversation have added up to special recognition for the Powell-Division Transit and Development Project: top honors from the International Association for Public Participation's U.S. affiliate.

The history of 82nd Avenue as a major highway is molding its uncertain future, with local stakeholders and ODOT now working together to decide what kind of road they want to see in years to come -- something befitting its modern usages and the desires of residents to have a safer street running through their communities.

How can a transit project help a community prosper without pricing out people who live there today? On Wednesday at David Douglas High School, Powell-Division planners met with community members to discuss equity strategies for the region's first bus rapid transit project.

An advisory committee of leaders from Portland, Gresham and East Multnomah County voted Monday to move forward with a bus-only study of high capacity transit on the Powell-Division corridor, dropping streetcar and light rail as an option for further consideration.

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